Cork-extractor



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CORK EXTRAGTOR.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CYRUS TOBIAS, OF FREEPORT, AND EDWARD WV. SHOESMITH, OF LENA, ASSIGNORS, BY DIRECT AND MESN E ASSIGNMENTS, TO ALBERT BAUM- GARTEN AND CYRUS TOBIAS, BOTH OF FREEPORT, ILLINOIS.

CORK-EXTRACTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,061, dated January 12, 1886.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, CYRUS TOBIAS, a resident of Frceport, in the county of Stephen son and State of Illinois, and EDWARD W. SHoEsMITH, a resident of Lena, in the county of Stephenson and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cork -EXtractors; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to improvements in cork-extractors of the class in which a lever is employed for removing corks or otherstoppers from bottles, jugs, and similar receptacles, and is fully described, set forth, claimed, and illustratedin the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan of the device attached to a suitable support; Fig. 2, an elevation of the same, looking in the direction of the arrow a, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section of the retainingring J, made on the line a: y, Fig. 1; and Fig. 4, a portion of the section made by the plane xy', Fig. 1, looking in the direction a.

In Fig. 1, A is acounter, shelf, or similar support; B, the body or bed of the extractor, attached to the support A by the screws D; L, a slot in the bed B. J J are projections from the bed,formed integrally therewith,and provided with openings M M of such size as to allow the cork but not the neck of the bottle to pass. 1 l 1 are springs to retain the bottle in position. E is a standard movably attached to the bed B by the bolt F and nut G, and carries the forked lever H.

In Fig. 2, which illustrates the manner of using our device, the bottle-neck T and the cork-screw S, with its handle R, are shown in dotted lines. Near the top of the standard E, and projecting from each side thereof, are lugs 0, preferably cylindrical, to serve as a fulcrum for the lever H. This lever is recessed upon its lower side to admit the rounded top of the standard E, and the portions of the lower part of the lever remaining on each side of such recess rest upon the fulcrumlugs 0, while downwardly-extending ears P tend to prevent the lateral and longitudinal displacement of the lever. Apin, a, may be passed through these cars, to prevent the removal of the lever from the fulcrum. The springs I pass downward through J J to a point below the ordinary enlargement at the end of the bottle-neck, and are then bent into aplane at right angles to that of their former position. When still further separating, they are bent approximately in arcs of the same circle, but just before they would otherwise meet are recurved outward. Aspring is thus formed adapted by the separating of its branches to admit the bottle-neck immediately below the opening M and by its elastic force to retain it in that position. Around the openings M M, on the lower side of J J, the material thereof is cut away to form a conical recess, N, Fig. 3, which assists .in bringing the cork exactly under the aperture M or M.

Fig. 4 shows that the bed B is provided with a recess, L, upon its lower face, and the ex tent of this recess is shown in plan at C, Fig. 1.

The threaded bolt F, provided with nut G, Figs. 1 and 4, has an enlarged body, F, Fig. 4, equal in length to the combined thickness of the horizontal portion of E and the bed B above the recess L anda rectangular head, Q, of suitable length, width, and thickness to move closely but freely in the slot L.

The standard E, when the nut G is screwed down upon the enlarged body F, may still swivel upon this body F, to allow swinging the lever H horizontally in either direction.

In operation the corkscrew S is first inserted in the cork to be drawn, the bottleneck is pressed in the direction a, Fig. 1, between the branches 1 of the spring to a position immediately beneath the opening M, the corkscrew S at the same time passing through the slot K and passing the lever by a slight inclination, the handle of the lever being at the time raised; or the lever may first be withdrawn by sliding the standard backward, the nut Q moving in the slot L. In either case the forked end of the lever is then caused to approach the handle R of the corkscrew S, its branches 0 c passing on either side of S and below It, when, lastly, by depressing the handle of the lever H the cork is easily and gradually withdrawn and the bottle may be removed.

In the drawings are shown two projections, J J, with openings M M of different sizes; but by lengthening the bed 13 and the slots L L any number may be employed and the standard readily adjusted to each by sliding it along the bed.

We are aware that it is old to combine with a corkscrew a fulcrumed lever adapted to en gage and actuate the corkscrew after the latter has been inserted in a cork, and to draw the corkscrew and cork from the bottle. Such levers have in some cases been slotted to receive the shank of the corkscrew and permaor bifurcated lever has been fulcrumed on and supported by a light movable base, so formed 'as to be set on or over the neck of the bottle to be operated on, the bottle and the entire cork-extracting device being held in the hands of the operator when in use. Ours is, so far as we know, the first machine of its class in which such bifurcated lever has been ful crumed on a base screwed or otherwise rigidly fastened to a table or counter, the base being provided with suitable devices for securing the neck of the bottle to be operated on.

Having now described and explained our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a cork-extractor, the combination of a suitable base, a lever support pivoted on said base, and a cork-extracting lever pivoted on said support, whereby the lever is free to oscillate about its own pivot and the pivot of its support and is adapted to operate on bottles at difierent points.

2. In a cork-extractor, the combination of a suitable base adapted to be screwed to a table or other stationary support, an adj ustable lever-support adapted to be moved from point to point on said base and to be rigidly fastened thereto at each point, and a corkextracting lever pivoted on said support and adapted through the adj ustability of said support to operate on corks at different points about the base.

3. In a cork-extractor, the combination of a suitable base, a stop rigid therewith formed with an opening larger than the cork to be extracted but smaller than the bottle-neck inclosing the cork, and slotted at one point to admit the shank of a corkscrew fixed in the cork, a cork-extracting lever pivoted on ,the base and adapted to engage a corkscrew when in place in said stop-opening, and a springclasp surrounding the stop-opening but having an opening corresponding in position to the slot in the stop and adapted to admit the neck of the bottle by the same lateral movement that passes the corkscrew-shank through the slot in the stop, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

4-. The slotted base B, one or more stops, J J, sliding fulcrum E, lever H, and springclasp I I I, combined substantially as and for the purpose described.

5. The base B, having the slot L, one or more stops, J J, rigidly attached thereto, the swiveled fulcrum E, the forked lever H, and springclasps I I I, combined substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribin'g witnesses.

CYRUS TOBIAS. ED\VARD NV. SHOESMITH.

W'itnesses:

S. A. BUOKMAN, T. D. WILooXoN. 

